Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

- Taylor, Sid

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

33.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.